Stiller
E91531
Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of truly knowing oneself.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stiller canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767518 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stiller Context triple: [Max Frisch, notableWork, Stiller]
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A.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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B.
Farley
Farley is a surname most notably associated with Jim Farley, an American business executive and CEO of Ford Motor Company.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Timothy Black
Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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E.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stiller Target entity description: Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of truly knowing oneself.
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A.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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B.
Farley
Farley is a surname most notably associated with Jim Farley, an American business executive and CEO of Ford Motor Company.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Timothy Black
Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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E.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I’m Not Stiller
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surface form:
Ich bin nicht Stiller
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| author | Max Frisch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
construction of personal identity
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gap between self-image and others’ perception ⓘ guilt and responsibility ⓘ limits of self-knowledge ⓘ role of memory in identity ⓘ |
| followedBy | Homo Faber ⓘ |
| form | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| genre |
existentialist literature
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novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
existential protagonist
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unreliable self-narrator ⓘ |
| hasForm | diary-like confessions ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Anatol Ludwig Stiller ⓘ |
| influenced | 20th-century German-language literature ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
analytical
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introspective ⓘ |
| literaryCategory |
German-language literature
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Swiss literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | post-war literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of Max Frisch’s most important novels ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
alienation
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identity ⓘ personal responsibility ⓘ self-deception ⓘ the impossibility of truly knowing oneself ⓘ truth and lies ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical examination of self-deception
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exploration of personal identity ⓘ use of unreliable narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Stiller self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | Max Frisch’s major prose works ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| publisher | Swiss publisher (German-language market) ⓘ |
| setting | Switzerland ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPlot | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Stiller Description of subject: Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of truly knowing oneself.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Max Frisch